No, let me rephrase. What makes it worth watching? The, erm, plot? Or, uhh, the torture scenes and deathtrap devices? Why is this thing keeping on getting millions every year, despite simply cashing in on blood and guts? Explanations? Ideas? Is it just a valid excuse to go watch someone being torn to shreds?
Note: Haven't actually seen a single film, so, I'm actually being curious. Not that I'm going to watch it anyway! Ha ha!
I'd say it's the sheer sense of shock that accompanies these images, at least when you're watching them for the first few times...
ReplyDeletePeople just love blood and guts, just thank whoever it is you thank that they don't watch live deathmatches anymore.
BTW, I haven't seen a single Saw film either, and not planning to.
Hm, way things are going, we'll have reality TV deathmatches soon enough. But yeah, I have a feeling they're basically getting a neat excuse of "This isn't real, bla bla" of watching fellow human beings suffer and die.
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So you don't play violent games and draw pleasure from fictional depictions of violence?
ReplyDeleteLike, say, Dead Space?
I've yet to play Dead Space. And, yes and no. I won't deny that there's a certain degree of entertainment in the video game violence, but unfortunately I find it hard to be entertained by violence for violence's sake.
ReplyDeleteIt has to have a point, a reason. Of course, there is, as I said, some momentary fun in chaotic destruction, but I can't exactly say that I'd enjoy something like, say, Manhunt. Sandboxing and berserking have some entertainment value, granted, but mainly in the chaos of the general picture, or in the AI's actions, rather than wishing to behold The Next Graphic Gore Scene. It simply has no appeal on the grand scale.
'sides, I think people that know what real-world violence is are hardly as excited about it as those that don't. Then again, who knows.
P.S: I'm more interested in Dead Space as a horror game than a game where player character can be dismembered in 400+ ways or whatnot.